A video has appeared online of what’s claimed to be an OLED display able to fold itself in half to become a mobile phone.
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Initially, the phone - which it’s thought was recently seen on a Samsung stand at a display tech trade show in Japan - looks more like a portable …

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ME WANT

ME WANT ONE NOW :-)

Im assuming if it can fold once it can fold twice. So like the snapfax style wallet books, you could open up a 12inch square screen. OLED is low on power. Samsung better get this to market quick... for my sake of course.

Nothing on Paris tho, she has been bendy for years. Only last night, did i see her ankles round her ears.

@Jacqui

Not surprising really as Sci Fi is responsible for many inventions that are taken for granted today. Despite that many people still look down on the genre - usually the people with no imagination whatsoever.

Damn!

The same thing we do every night, Pinky

Why did the person recording stay there for so long looking at it while it was open, after it did it's close-and-open routine? I stupidly kept watching, thinking something else MUST happen since there was over a minute left. But no, nothing. I felt like I was part of a "Pinky and the Brain" episode, where Brain gets everyone in the world to watch something so that he can brainwash them. Then again, maybe he already did that with "reality" shows... Zort! Poit! Narf!

How many cycles?

So we can see a display that can be folded gently at room temperature through a few cycles at a trade show... There are a significant number of hurdles to making a shippable product that can be flipped open at freezing and hot temperatures, 150-200 times per day for a 5 year product life

This can only lead to one thing

"Folding" or two screens?

I suspect it's more likely that this is two screens which operate right to the very edge along the "fold" line. But that's quite an achievement given the usual issues with encapsulating OLED displays. (They use a lithium and/or calcium cathode layer, which obviously doesn't last long with any water/oxygen penetration). You could of course use a light-piping layer to shift the apparent image over an underlying seal-border, but this would add thickness undesired in a slimline consumer product.